撒母耳記下 {sa4-mu3-er3-ji4-xia4}
Old Testament – Historical Books
I know you know how to pronounce Samuel. I know you know what 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel talk about. So why bother talking about them here? But please indulge me with just two questions. First, “Who wrote 1 Samuel?” Samuel, you might say, and that’s not wrong.
But 1 Samuel 25:1 says, “Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him…” So.. who wrote 2 Samuel, and 1 Samuel 26 onward?
It turns out that 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel have multiple authors. Aside from Samuel himself, it is believed that Prophet Gad and Prophet Nathan also contributed to these two Books. Nathan was the prophet that God sent to rebuke David for killing Uriah and marrying Bathsheba. Gad was the prophet that God sent to rebuke David for counting his troops in his pride. Both prophets were alive to witness the remaining accounts of David and Israel after Samuel’s passing. So there you go.